XDCAM footage not linking

[Alex Udell]

Are you using XML’s fcp or editing fresh?

if Fresh, you my not need to go the .mov route…..do you still have the MXF’s?

Alex Udell
Editing, Motion Graphics, and Visual FX

[Mitch Jordan]

These are quicktime movies that are rewrapped .mxf files since FCP doesn’t recognize .mxf. We might change our workflow in the future to stay native since CC doesn’t mind. However, right now we have hundreds of hours of old footage that are these rewrapped quicktime movies. I was wondering if there is a setting or something I might need to do to get the files to load properly. I loaded about 50 clips in this last project, and maybe 6 or 7 gave me trouble.

[Don Hertz]

I had similar issues. Perhaps 2 out of 25 Quicktime wrapped XDCAM HD clips stated Media Pending and wouldn’t do anything. Outside of Premiere, I opened the clips in Quicktime and re-saved them as a way of forcing Quicktime to “re-wrap” them. They both worked fine when re-imported into Premiere CC. Might be worth a shot.

Sincerely,

Don Hertz

[Mitch Jordan]

I tried resaving them out of Quicktime Pro, but it didn’t help. I’ve realized the problem is worse. I work for a professional sports team, and we have thousands of individual clips of every highlight for the last 8 years. To create them, we subclipped off of professional Sony XDCAM disks and rewrapped all the clips into XDCAM Quicktime for FCP 7 using Log and Transfer. When I open up a game, most of the clips break up. Often, it’s at the head and about halfway into the clip. I need to figure this out or we’ll have to give up on Adobe. We can’t abandon all our footage from the last 8 years.

Does Premiere Pro have a problem with 32 bit Quicktime movies?

[Don Hertz]

Mitch,

Quicktime wrapped XDCAM HD422 files is our house format for everything – and have so far been working well in Premiere CC and CS6 before that (other than those couple of files I mentioned earlier that I had to re-wrap in Quicktime.) However, I don’t know how many, if any of these were created back in our FCP 7 days – so I can’t help you on that front.

If you’re still stuck you are welcome to upload a short clip to me. I can see if it plays fine on our systems. That might at least help you narrow it down to a system specific issue or a Premiere issue. Let me know if that’s of interest and a we can work out a good way to exchange the clip.

Sincerely,

Don Hertz

[Mitch Jordan]

Thanks, Don. I’d appreciate the help. I’ve really liked everything else about Premiere Pro, but not being able to edit our game highlights would really be a deal breaker. Is there a way to send a private message through this board?

[Don Hertz]

I’m on a shoot this afternoon. Will respond tonight.

[Mitch Jordan]

Thank you for your help. Here’s a YouSendIt link so you can download the files. I hope it’s just my machine and I’ll be able to track the issue down.

https://www.yousendit.com/download/WFJVN3RlYStqV0JWeHNUQw

These are 3 files, but about half of this game shows the same issue.

[Mitch Jordan]

A little more testing- tried viewing the clips in CS6 and CC on another computer in our company. CS6 played the clips fine, but same trouble with CC. I wonder if it’s a bug in Premiere Pro CC.

[Don Hertz]

Mitch – I tried all 3 clip in Premiere CC and CS6. In CC I get the corrupt frames but only in a portion of the first GOP. So they always occur within the first 15 frames or fewer. (One of them lasts 3 frames, one 11 frames, one is only a single frame.) The remainder of the clip then plays fine. Is this consistent with what you are seeing – or are you seeing corrupt frames throughout?

CS6 plays them all just fine.

So I have to agree with you – then is most likely a CC bug that you might have to wait an update or two to get resolved. I’ll file a bug report with Adobe. I would suggest you do the same.

You are welcome to e-mail me offline to continue the conversation. dhertz@me.com. Have a good weekend.

Don Hertz